droosan wrote:though, EricJ is referring to the premiere date of Star Wars as the 'real' Star Wars Day: May 25th, 1977

The Sack Charles on Cambridge St., Boston (now the Mass. General Research Centre ), I was there. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8937Well, in June, actually, but it was still getting block-long lines. Don't argue with the O.G.

Well, since most of the other films have come on a variety of dates - not to mention varied international releases - May the Fourth works just perfectly as a "real" SW Day. It's just cool to have a solid, fixed date that we know when it is. AND it is a terrific pun.

Eh; I'm an O.G. fan .. but I find myself empathizing with Dustin's dad (in the comic strip above) : "There's a Star Wars Day? But why..? It's not like there's a Batman Day, or a James Bond Day. Is that only because you can't make a pun referencing one of their catchphrases on a specific date..?"

droosan wrote:Eh; I'm an O.G. fan .. but I find myself empathizing with Dustin's dad (in the comic strip above) : "There's a Star Wars Day? But why..? It's not like there's a Batman Day, or a James Bond Day. Is that only because you can't make a pun referencing one of their catchphrases on a specific date..?"

Isn't there also some kind of Military day on March 4th? No, seriously. That's where you have to start drawing the line.

You have a birthday every year, right? But you only ever had one birth day, a long time ago. Why keep celebrating it every year?

This is just a way for fans to celebrate their thing. It happens in May because that's when SW was released, and the pun has shifted it back a bit to a logical - and fun - position.

Yes, it's nuts that there is a SW Day. But then many people don't class themselves as Batmen or Bonds as a religion, the way that Jedis wanted it to be acknowledged. I think SW is just that little bit bigger than Batman or Bond, or anything really (except maybe for Trek and I think they already have their celebration date (isn't it Kirk's birthday?), though no reason they couldn't have their days too.

It's just fun for those who partake. I myself was stuck in a British election station all day yesterday, so no fun for me, but I just like that it's kind of out there.

quote="droosan"]Eh; I'm an O.G. fan .. but I find myself empathizing with Dustin's dad (in the comic strip above) : "There's a Star Wars Day? But why..? It's not like there's a Batman Day, or a James Bond Day. Is that only because you can't make a pun referencing one of their catchphrases on a specific date..?" [/quote]

A very short (but nifty!) experimental animation, juxtaposing forced-perspective drawings with a moving mounted camera .. the first half offers a time-lapse overview of the process; the second half features the combined effect: